How Many Site Hits? Depends Who's Counting — How many people visited Style.com, the online home of Vogue and W magazines, last month? Was it 421,000, or, more optimistically, 497,000? Or was the real number more than three times higher, perhaps 1.8 million?

Has The MySpace To Facebook Switch Begun? — If hype was the only indicator of marketshare in social networking, Facebook would be the winner by a mile, and yet for all the talk of Facebook's greatness, MySpace remains the most popular social networking destination.

Google's Purchase of Jaiku Raises New Privacy Issues — Google's acquisition of Jaiku, a small Finnish start-up active in the obscure field of microblogging — a word most often associated with the better-known company Twitter — might not appear to be an earth-shaking event.

Exclusive: I Was a Hacker for the MPAA — Promises of Hollywood fame and fortune persuaded a young hacker to betray former associates in the BitTorrent scene to Tinseltown's anti-piracy lobby, according to the hacker. — In an exclusive interview with Wired News, gun-for-hire hacker Robert Anderson tells …

Online Video: NBC pulls YouTube channel — NBC pulls YouTube channel — NBC Universal has quietly pulled the official channel on YouTube the two companies established last June. Of course, that was a long time ago, in Internet years, and the relationship had run its course.

How To Bypass Comcast's BitTorrent Throttling — Comcast is using an application from the broadband management company Sandvine to throttle BitTorrent traffic. It breaks every (seed) connection with new peers after a few seconds if it's not a Comcast user inside your community boundary.

Yes, some blogs are profitable - very profitable — In 2005, when Silicon Valley entrepreneur Michael Arrington started TechCrunch, his popular blog on Internet startups, he saw it mainly as a chance to indulge his obsession with young technology companies. — But it turned out that Arrington had latched onto something big.

Facebook: Who needs Google? Facebook's stealth ad system — Facebook, in the midst of a high-stakes negotiation over its future, has just dramatically upped the ante. How? The social network is quietly starting to promote its long-rumored ad-targeting system — under a clever costume.

What if Microsoft wasn't a screwup? — I had coffee with a friend last week who is ex-MSFT. He follows my blog and asked why I hadn't posted recently. I told him that I'd actually penned three different posts but decided not to publish any of them. — The first touched on Vista's challenges …

With TakeTV, SanDisk's Video Strategy Takes Shape — Sometime on Monday, SanDisk (SNDK), a Milpitas, Calif.-based company whose main business is making flash memory chips, is going to announce Take.TV, a video portal to accompany a USB flash drive that will also carry the same name, according to our sources.

Free My Phone — Suppose you own a Dell computer, and you decide to replace it with a Sony. You don't have to get the permission of your Internet service provider to do so, or even tell the provider about it. You can just pack up the old machine and set up the new one.